Re: Alternative C++ binding

["Wim Couwenberg" <w.couwenberg@...>]

> As for the GC template I have an answer to your problem.
> The problem is that it is illegal to directly call destructors.
> You have to go through delete.

No, it's perfectly legal to explicitly call a destructor.  Ben's example
could read something like this:

template<typename T>
int GCMethod(lua_State *L)
{
    T *p = lua_userdata_cast(L, 1, T);
    if (p)
        p->~T();
}

This destructs the instance while Lua takes care of freeing the memory.

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Wim